RE: accessible bios setup:thoughts?

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:38:22 -0400

I just saw this might be something to read more on Dell seems to have a way
to print your settings into an xml file I didn't read it all but maybe there
is a way to modify the xml and reboot shrug.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/configmgrswdist/thread/b3a481a
2-c2d1-4c50-91d3-58f8f5e47f39

Ken
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Tyler
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Subject: Re: accessible bios setup:thoughts?

Hmm. I forgot about those. that could possibly be something worth 
looking into. also a VGA to serial converter might do the trick somehow.
On 4/19/2011 8:20 AM, Trouble wrote:
> On new boards today the USB is enable for USB keyboards and mouse. 
> Don't use ps2 anymore.
>
> At 10:20 PM 4/18/2011, you wrote:
>> USB isn't native though; you have to enable it.
>> On 4/18/2011 8:00 PM, The Elf wrote:
>>> do you know if the video output can be easily accessed from the USB?
>>>
>>> if so...
>>>
>>> elf
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trouble" <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 4:07 PM
>>> Subject: Re: accessible bios setup:thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>>> There have ben a few cards that would send video to a box that 
>>>> would speak the screen. It never went anywhere because to pricey.
>>>> The bad part is only the video, keyboard mouse and USB ports are 
>>>> lit up by the BIOS.
>>>> On the screen with web cam, tilt the screen so you stop the glare 
>>>> and kill lights in room.
>>>> have done that one a few times.
>>>> At 03:54 PM 4/17/2011, you wrote:
>>>>> Hello all:
>>>>> I will be getting a desktop in the near future and I want to be 
>>>>> able to work my way through the bios and configure everything like 
>>>>> I want (raid, etc).
>>>>> Have any of you found a way that can be used for someone across 
>>>>> the net to work with you? I have a friend who said he would help, 
>>>>> and I could point the webcam at the screen, but that's really hard 
>>>>> if not impossible to read from the glow of the screen. Are there 
>>>>> other solutions?
>>>>> I have a male - male VGA port setup. Could I possibly somehow set 
>>>>> it up to stream the video from the computer to something that I 
>>>>> could transmit across the net? this sounds like a cool little 
>>>>> project, I'm just not sure where to begin. I'd think Linux would 
>>>>> be a lot easier to write this for.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Ty
>>>>>
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